Years Ago Quotes - Page 40

• So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!

  Nigel Dennis

  Years, Cameras, Twenties

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• When you awaken some morning and hear that somebody or other has been discovered, you can put it down as a fact that he discovered himself years ago - since that time he has been toiling, working, and striving to make himself worthy of general discovery.

  James Whitcomb Riley

  Time, Morning, Discovery

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• I performed in Sydney some years ago for the Sydney Festival and I am just so pleased to be returning to the wonderful Sydney Opera House and also performing in Melbourne for the first time.

  Lesley Garrett

  Years, House, Opera

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• If Mother Culture were to give an account of human history using these terms, it would go something like this: ' The Leavers were chapter one of human history -- a long and uneventful chapter. Their chapter of human history ended about ten thousand years ago with the birth of agriculture in the Near East. This event marked the beginning of chapter two, the chapter of the Takers. It's true there are still Leavers living in the world, but these are anachronisms, fossils -- people living in the past, people who just don't realize that their chapter of human history is over. '

  Daniel Quinn

  Mother, Past, Two

  Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.42, Bantam

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• Twenty years ago, teenage boys in the United States drank twice as much milk as soda; now they drink twice as much soda as milk.

  Eric Schlosser

  Teenage, Boys, Years

  Eric Schlosser (2001). “Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal”, p.54, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• When I signed in Ottawa two years ago, I felt it was to be an integral part of the team. Over the last two years and more recently over the past year, I feel my role was diminished. This past season, it diminished a lot more.
  “I would like the opportunity to go somewhere where I can play to the best of my capabilities and be the player that I can be.

  Dany Heatley

  Team, Past, Opportunity

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• One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It's a Victorian-style setting that's closed in the back, so it doesn't sparkle the way diamonds do now. I wear it as a pendant.

  Georgina Chapman

  Mom, Grandmother, Years

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• Ten years ago, Republicans decided it was time to reform our broken welfare system and give welfare recipients the tools they needed to escape the system and build a better life.

  Todd Tiahrt

  Years, Broken, Giving

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• Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.

  William Butler Yeats

  Vanity, Years, Long

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.498, Hayes Barton Press

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• We will continue to ignore political and economic forecasts, which are an expensive distraction for many investors and
  businessmen. Thirty years ago, no one could have foreseen the huge expansion of the Vietnam War, wage and price controls, two oil shocks, the resignation of a president, the dissolution of the Soviet Union, a one-day drop in the Dow of 508 points, or treasury bill yields fluctuating between 2.8% and 17.4%.

  Warren Buffett

  War, Yield, Years

  Letter To the Shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., www.berkshirehathaway.com. March 7, 1995.

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• If compliments were food, I'd have starved to death 28 years ago.

  Erma Bombeck

  Years, Cooking, Compliment

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• All the events you have experienced in your lifetime up to this moment have been created by your thoughts and beliefs you have held in the past. They were created by the thoughts and words you used yesterday, last week, last month, last year, 10, 20, 30, 40, or more years ago, depending on how old you are

  Louise Hay

  Past, Years, Yesterday

  Louise L. Hay (1999). “You Can Heal Your Life Gift”, p.22, Hay House, Inc

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• When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice.

  Allan Sloan

  Jobs, Writing, Years

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• Yes, business really does change. 400 years ago, corporations were formed by royal decree. 300 years ago, many countries were powered by slave labour, or its closest moral equivalent. 200 years ago, debtors didn't go bankrupt, they went to prison. 100 years ago - well, business is largely the same as it was a century ago. And that's exactly the problem. Business hasn't changed, but today's array of tectonic global shocks demands a different, radically better kind of business. Yesterday's corporations visibly cannot meet today's economic challenges.

  Umair Haque

  Country, Business, Yesterday

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• Community. A friend started a real estate brokerage a few years ago. By the time she'd added her second employee, she was a pillar of her 35,000-person community. No rule says that only the local banker or car dealer can organize the program to raise supplemental funds for the public library or send the high school band on a well-earned special trip. Participating in community affairs, with time more than dollars, is good business from day one. It gets your name around, adds to your distinctiveness, and, best of all, makes you an attractive employer (which is the key to sustained success).

  Tom Peters

  Business, Real, School

  Tom Peters (2010). “The Pursuit of Wow!: Every Person's Guide to Topsy-Turvy Times”, p.117, Vintage

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• Organized labor still has privileges and legal immunities that even kings and governments lost years ago.

  Roscoe Pound

  Kings, Work, Government

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• Five hundred years ago a person in error was a person searching for the truth.

  John H. Lienhard

  Errors, Years, Hundred

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• The only time I took Ecstacy was years and years ago. It was absolutely amazing.

  Graham Norton

  Years, Drug, Only Time

  "BBC backs Norton over drugs admission" by Jo Revill, www.theguardian.com. October 8, 2006.

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• The only information we have about the early history of the dance comes to us from the rock paintings created by primitive man tens of thousands of years ago in what is now France.

  Curt Sachs

  Dance, Men, Rocks

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• I'd like to speak a foreign language well enough to get the jokes. I'd like to talk with Socrates, and watch Michelangelo sculpt David. I'd like to see the world as it was a million years ago and a million years hence.

  Robert Fulghum

  Time, Years, Watches

  Robert Fulghum (2004). “All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten: Uncommon Thoughts on Common Things”, p.184, Ballantine Books

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• When it comes to the origin of life there are only two possibilities: creation or spontaneous generation. There is no third way. Spontaneous generation was disproved one hundred years ago, but that leads us to only one other conclusion, that of supernatural creation. We cannot accept that on philosophical grounds; therefore, we choose to believe the impossible: that life arose spontaneously by chance!

  George Wald

  Believe, Philosophical, Origin Of Life

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• Look at great teams like Detroit a couple of years ago; they win the Stanley Cup and guys only score 25 goals, nobody has a really big season.

  Peter Bondra

  Couple, Team, Winning

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• That was for instance the case in Mocambique a couple of years ago, during the flooding catastrophe. Instead of co-ordinating assistance properly, to much time and resources was spent on fighting about the same helicopters and local guides.

  Anna Lindh

  Couple, Fighting, Years

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• The Internet is just one of those things that contemporary humans can spend millions of "practice" events at, that the average human a thousand years ago had absolutely no exposure to. Our brains are massively remodeled by this exposure--but so, too, by reading, by television, by video games, by modern electronics, by contemporary music, by contemporary "tools," etc.

  Michael Merzenich

  Reading, Average, Years

  "Are we getting smarter or dumber?". Interview with Stefanie Olsen, www.cnet.com. September 21, 2005.

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• Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it's a shame.

  Ronnie Spector

  Years, Groups, Shame

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